Classical Calendar, November 11-20
Concerts around Georgia over the next week or so, featuring artists from the homegrown to the globetrotting.
November 13-14 and 16
- Percussion star Evelyn Glennie (right) joins the Atlanta Symphony in Atlanta for John Corigliano's Percussion Concerto. Donald Runnicles also conducts Gershwin's Cuban Overture and Dvorak's "New World" Symphony.
- The New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players bring their concert production of one of G&S's best comic operettas to Columbus's RiverCenter: The Pirates of Penzance.(To be repeated on the 16th in Athens.)
- Grammy-nominated mezzo-soprano D'Anna Fortunato, with Peter Bloom, flute, and Mary Jane Rupert, piano, perform music of Handel, Rossini, Britten, Delibes, Pinkham, Gershwin and Vercoe at Covenant College, Lookout Mountain.
- Acclaimed pianist Stephen Hough (right) performs at Spivey Hall, Clayton State, Morrow. Bach, Faure, Franck, Copland and Chopin.
- The Macon Symphony Orchestra, with conductor Adrian Gnam and pianist David Gross, offer "the three B's" - Beethoven ("Pastorale" Symphony), Brahms (Second Piano Concerto) and Bach (the Fugue/Ricercare from A Musical Offering, orchestrated by Webern) - at Macon's Grand Opera House.
- Soprano, string quartet and interactive audio and video combine in the world premiere of Ophelia's Gaze, a new chamber opera by Emory University composer Steven Everett, based on poetry by Pulitzer-winning Emory poet Natasha Trethewey, at Atlanta's Schwartz Center.
- Marietta-born star soprano Jennifer Larmore (right) returns home for her debut with the Atlanta Opera as Cinderella in Rossini's opera La Cenerentola. At the Cobb Energy Center, Atlanta.
- The Macon Symphony performs at the Plaza Arts Center in Eatonton.
- German baritone Christian Gerhaher and pianist Gerold Hubert offer an afternoon recital of art songs by Schumann at Spivey Hall, Morrow.
- The New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players bring their concert version of The Pirates of Penzance to UGA's Performing Arts Center, Athens.
- The LaGrange Symphony presents "Music: The Invisible Art," with German, Korean and American pieces (the last by LaGrange's own Lee Johnson). Patricio Cobos conducts at Callaway Auditorium, LaGrange College.
- Famed guitarist Manuel Barrueco performs on Columbus State's Legacy Live series at RiverCenter, Columbus. (He also plays in LaGrange Thursday.)
- Manuel Barrueco, guitarist, plays on LaGrange College's new Callaway Concert Series.
- The Borealis String Quartet, an acclaimed Canadian foursome, appears in concert at Goodwin Recial Hall, Auburn University, Auburn, Ala., presented by the Auburn Chamber Music Society.
